Imagination Library program has signs of life

1:20 AM,
May 9, 2013

Bruce Gaudin, left, Opelousas Noon Rotary Club member, and Sarah Branton, center, club president, present a $3,600 check to Ginger LeCompte, St. Landry-Evangeline United Way representative. The money, raised from the annual Opelousas Noon Rotary Club Auction, will be used to support the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.

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The Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which has been dark for the past year in St. Landry Parish, may soon be reborn to benefit thousands of area children.

"We are hoping to begin again in July," said Ginger LeCompte with the St. Landry-Evangeline United Way, which has operated the program locally since 2008.

The Imagination Library, the brainchild of country music star Dolly Parton, provides a free, age-appropriate book each month to children from birth through age 5. Each month a new, carefully selected book is mailed directly to the child's home. ...